IP blocking of Chinese (1/13)

[the1234321]

unfortunately :-(
who's the next

[Seany1990]

Source?

[BIG OLAF]

Oh boy, here we go.

[the1234321]

Source?

http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2098077591

login only with VPN

[EvilMag]

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/q585/EvilMag123/g1355183559306581308.jpg

[xBladeM6x]

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/q585/EvilMag123/g1355183559306581308.jpg

I literally busted out laughing at this. :-D

[Meji]

If they've banned CH IP's, I'm guessing it's because of all the RMT bots and stuff.

[NoiseHERO]

If they've banned CH IP's, I'm guessing it's because of all the RMT bots and stuff.

this

Anyhow @ OP I say this thread would've been fine if you didn't say "whose next."

Either facepalmable offense, or admirable trolling to get the "OH THIS AGAIN" sheep posting started.

[Z-0]

Bots are still around.

[NoiseHERO]

Bot are TOTALLY main people's complaints for this game...

And not the way SEGA is handling them.

LIKE REALLY

[Seany1990]

Bot are TOTALLY main people's complaints for this game...

RNG (grinding especially) gets most of the flack

[TaigaUC]

Blocking country-specific IPs won't stop bots. Those people always have lots of proxies and VPNs.

[Jyasupa]

Wasn't there a poster here from Shanghai 3:? Am sad.

[Xaeris]

http://i1165.photobucket.com/albums/q585/EvilMag123/g1355183559306581308.jpg

I love this.

[Daiyousei]

Feel sorry for the legit players though, they even have an entire PSO community on baidu, with their own wiki and very detailed guides on things like Matter Board.

[Coatl]

Is this legit?

[Daiyousei]

I can read Chinese and yea, it's legit that they are IP banned for now. There are many other recent threads there on the IP bannage. They can only play with VPN or proxy now.

[Coatl]

It's probably just temporary.
This is extremely unfair to those that weren't harming the servers.

[blace]

It's probably just temporary.
This is extremely unfair to those that weren't harming the servers.
Wide spread bans have been used if a region of the world is suspected of illicit activity, and to make matters worse China does have a large market for under-the-table work and dealings.

That's assuming they found most of the RMT to originate from there.

[Para]

Definitely I think it is the RMT/botters thats wrecking everything. Everywhere I see a goddamn bot.

This reminds me of the "Chinese Gold Farmer"

[Noc Codez]

Really hope US/EU will not get region locked :(

[saihamaru]

sega will probably change it's course of action and lift the ban if they realize that banning their ip is not enough to stop the bots

[NoiseHERO]

RNG (grinding especially) gets most of the flack

I TOTALLY wasn't being sarcastic!

I'm think about, how much shiit are we gonna have to put up with, and the excuse will be "To prevent bots" (Even though it'll just questionably cost us money.)

Trading and Shop needing AC - didn't do shit to stop bots. Making us all rule breakers by changing the TOS didn't save anyone. IP blocking kicks out a bunch of legit players, WE HAVE GAMEGUARD FOR CHRIST SAKE, THAT ONE IS SELF EXPLANATORY how gameguard ever stopped ANY hacking??

Next we'll be getting 5 hours maintenances daily scanning for bots and then it'll take 5 dollars from our debit cards for every maintenance to cover the cost on "anti botting" resources.

[CyberNei]

Any official info that they were region blocked by SEGA? Could be one of their main ISPs doing maintenance on DNS servers. Happened in Russia like a month ago for this reason, stayed for a day then gone.

[Mike]

Any official info that they were region blocked by SEGA? Could be one of their main ISPs doing maintenance on DNS servers. Happened in Russia like a month ago for this reason, stayed for a day then gone.
Nothing official but since no one outside of Japan is officially allowed to play, I'd doubt they'd announce anything.

[Vashyron]

Always find it funny when this route is taken by companies to stop a certain group from their "unwanted" activities, when the ones doing this always easily have the means to bypass it while the innocent typically don't.

[Mystil]

Heh, I guess SEGA is not gonna let the game suffer from RMT like FFXI did in its first 5 years before SE completely obliterated them.

[Rien]

Come on, the damage has piled up too high already. Have you seen the lolzy inflations?

<insert ronald mcdonald in car saying "LOL, RMT" here>

[Seany1990]

Always find it funny when this route is taken by companies to stop a certain group from their "unwanted" activities, when the ones doing this always easily have the means to bypass it while the innocent typically don't.

Reminds me of when AC2 was released and the only people who were able to play were the pirates.

[The Walrus]

Gotta love DRM and how effective it is...

Oh wait

[Aeris]

Wasn't there a poster here from Shanghai 3:? Am sad.

I think its Waya, doubt he/she can log in.

[Retehi]

This is how wars get started. First rocks in the water no one gives a shit about (http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2020124464_apasjapandefense.html), now this. :)

[The Walrus]

Wars get started over MMOs?

[Wayu]

I think its Waya, doubt he/she can log in.

It's me. Was me.

-Wayu

[TaigaUC]

Been banned from a few other Japanese and Korean games due to international IP blocks, even though my friends and I always minded our own business and never caused trouble. It's pretty damn annoying.

What's the phrase? A few bad apples ruin the lot?

[ShinMaruku]

I hope they block everything so the comedy could ensue.

[gigawuts]

i hope they even block japan

so only soj employees can play

the joke is they don't play

[Coatl]

Ship 2 is full again.

[NoiseHERO]

Ship 2 is full again.

yerp.

"full"

Usually I can log in anyway but not this time.

Kind of reminds me of when PSU started having "I CAN'T LOG IN" errors, which they took WEEKS to fix AND it was during a major event...

Man I miss that game.

[ShinMaruku]

i hope they even block japan

so only soj employees can play

the joke is they don't play

They should block Japan too. Then I will VPN their ass and say No green eggs, no ham, I'm Dr. Seussless!

[Jungo Torii]

Ship 2 is full again.

http://puu.sh/zWZD

Again with this crap...this is becoming terribly aggravating.

[jooozek]

SOA FIX THIS ALREADY

oh wait we are still on the japanese servers

[ShinMaruku]

Spooby can fix this.

[Coatl]

The only difference between SoA having to fix this and SoJ having to fix this is SoA would take a week before being arsed to deal with it.

[ShinMaruku]

The only difference between SoA having to fix this and SoJ having to fix this is SoA would take a week before being arsed to deal with it.
You have too much faith. It will take them both the same time. Matter of fact SoA would lag because Japanese people have to do the changes THEN ship to US and Sega in general is incompetent.

[Coatl]

It is sad when the defeatist attitude of the majority of the PSO fanbase is completely justified.
It's a little depressing when you give some thought to it. ._.

[ShinMaruku]

I'm not defeatist I just know what Sega is. :P
They could be better but nah they are incompetent.
Blame the execs and the fanbase. http://www.hotbloodedgaming.com/forum/images/smilies/Kappa.png

[Raymee]

Honestly from what I've seen from SEGA of America's representative/spokesman, Edward, he spoke of improving PSU over and over and yet nothing actually really happened in the end. The servers died inevitably.

Aside from PSU, their terrible service has also applied to PSO1 with the GC Ep 1 & 2, and also for Blue Burst too lol. Everyone knows this but just refuses to accept this.

[Z-0]

The only difference between SoA having to fix this and SoJ having to fix this is SoA would take a week before being arsed to deal with it.
Well the problem has been around for over a week, SEGA just addressed it only recently. :/

It's just been happening more often recently for some reason.

[Raymee]

Remember how the maintenance crew went on vacation a while back? There wasn't any maintenance at the time.
This is what happens when server cache gets too huge.


I'm joking, it's probably the fact that this would happen if no weekly maintenance were to be applied.

[sabitsuki]

This is like the war on drugs, as long as there's demand this shyte won't stop

[Seany1990]

I like how this fault is entirely on SoJ yet for some reason unbeknownst to man, SoA is getting all of the criticism in this thread.

[jooozek]

I like how this fault is entirely on SoJ yet for some reason unbeknownst to man, SoA is getting all of the criticism in this thread.

If you refer to my post it was a joke on how people keep saying SoA is incompetent while SoJ is roughly the same. Almost all faults of SoA can be credited to SoJ.

[Sierhiet]

I like how this fault is entirely on SoJ yet for some reason unbeknownst to man, SoA is getting all of the criticism in this thread.

http://serve.mysmiley.net/confused/confused0024.gif

[BIG OLAF]

As predictable as the sunrise.

[Seany1990]

If you refer to my post it was a joke on how people keep saying SoA is incompetent while SoJ is roughly the same. Almost all faults of SoA can be credited to SoJ.

I saw that, what about the 8 or so posts after yours?

[ShinMaruku]

If you refer to my post it was a joke on how people keep saying SoA is incompetent while SoJ is roughly the same. Almost all faults of SoA can be credited to SoJ.
That's why I want when US PSO2 comes they IP block US people. :E

[Raymee]

That's why I want when US PSO2 comes they IP block US people. :E

????????

[CJ Johnny]

Just take 'Ship-03' Off-Line for a month or 2 may be 3.
So much work... And they mostly use VPN.

That is were they hang-out.

Hum!
Comes to think of it.
When will SoJ start Shrinking Ships!!!

[Darki]

That's why I want when US PSO2 comes they IP block US people. :E

With that mentality, I hope it's just US. -_-

[Aeris]

It's me. Was me.

-Wayu

Ah, sorry for that misspell xD

[ShinMaruku]

Oh you want them to ban everybody but Japan and Singapore? http://i565.photobucket.com/albums/ss96/TheTwilightStorm/Twitch%20Faces/PogChamp.jpg

[Chik'Tikka]

i seem to recall a while back that https://cha.isao.net/profile_oem/OEMLogin.php?product_name=pso2 was region blocked for a while, but now people can create accounts again+^_^+ with how successful RMT people obviously are (or they still wouldn't be doing it) they'll probably buy proxies to get in if they weren't using them in the 1st place+^_^+ so it's possibly just some sort of testing being done on SEGAC's side+^_^+